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George Hunter The Detroit News Published 9:12 AM EDT Oct 20, 2018 Detroit police removed 63 fetuses Friday from a Detroit funeral home, as state inspectors shuttered the facility that is under investigation on allegations of mishandling remains and fraud. Police raided Perry Funeral Home on Trumbull Ave. Friday afternoon and found 36 fetuses in boxes and an additional 27 fetuses in freezers there, Detroit police chief James Craig said. "I’m stunned," Craig said. "My team is stunned. God help those families." The Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs announced Friday it had suspended the mortuary science licenses of Perry Funeral Home and its director Gary Deak. The decision to close the facility came after an inspection Friday which uncovered "an imminent threat to the public health and safety," LARA spokesman Jason Moon said in a press release. Friday's grisly discovery is the latest development in a widening investigation … [Read more...] about Detroit police find 63 fetuses in boxes, freezers of funeral home

Bill Laitner Detroit Free Press Published 8:35 AM EDT Oct 20, 2018 In a rapidly widening investigation of metro Detroit funeral homes, Detroit Police executed a search warrant at a west-side funeral home near Wayne State University and removed 63 remains of fetuses, police said. Custody of the remains — found at the Perry Funeral Home, on Trumbull just north of Warren Avenue — was turned over to state investigators, who immediately declared the business closed and its license suspended, according to a statement from Michigan Licensing and Regulatory Affairs. Of the grisly total, there were 36 fetuses stored in boxes and another 27 found in freezers, police said. Friday’s discovery of the decomposed remains followed a similar grisly finding last week at the defunct Cantrell Funeral Home on Detroit’s east side, where 11 infants’ remains were found after an anonymous letter arrived in the offices of state regulators in Lansing. Friday's … [Read more...] about Perry Funeral Home in Detroit: 63 fetuses removed

Bill Laitner Detroit Free Press Published 10:19 PM EDT Oct 19, 2018 In a rapidly widening investigation of metro Detroit funeral homes, Detroit Police executed a search warrant at a west-side funeral home near Wayne State University and removed 63 remains of fetuses, police said. Custody of the remains — found at the Perry Funeral Home, on Trumbull just north of Warren Avenue — was turned over to state investigators, who immediately declared the business closed and its license suspended, according to a statement from Michigan Licensing and Regulatory Affairs. Of the grisly total, there were 36 fetuses stored in boxes and another 27 found in freezers, police said. Friday’s discovery of the decomposed remains followed a similar grisly finding last week at the defunct Cantrell Funeral Home on Detroit’s east side, where 11 infants’ remains were found after an anonymous letter arrived in the offices of state regulators in Lansing. Friday's … [Read more...] about 63 fetuses removed from Perry Funeral Home in Detroit

George Hunter The Detroit News Published 4:31 PM EDT Oct 19, 2018 Law enforcement agencies are considering forming a task force as part of a widening investigation into alleged improprieties involving local funeral homes, specifically targeting improper storage of remains and fraud, Detroit's police chief said Friday. As part of the investigation into the Cantrell Funeral Home and Perry Funeral Home in Detroit, Detroit police raided an Eastpointe facility and the owner's Grosse Pointe Woods home Friday morning. According to the funeral home's attorney, police removed computers, phone records and other items. "This is larger than we might know," said Chief James Craig during a press briefing Friday at the 5th Precinct. "These are allegations at this point, but it's very, very disturbing. I've never seen anything like it in 41-and-a-half years (as a police officer)." Craig told reporters he met earlier Friday with representatives from the … [Read more...] about Detroit police widening investigation into local funeral homes

George Hunter The Detroit News Published 10:48 PM EDT Oct 18, 2018 As authorities probe the discovery of abandoned remains at the former Cantrell Funeral Home, police are investigating allegations that another Detroit funeral home mishandled hundreds of fetuses and infants' bodies and filed death certificates falsely claiming that some of them had been buried. The development comes amid an ongoing Detroit police probe into allegedly improperly handled remains at the closed Cantrell facility on Detroit's east side. The latest investigation stems from a 72-page lawsuit filed in Wayne County Circuit Court that claims Perry Funeral Home, on Trumbull near Warren, stored the remains of stillborn and live birth babies in the Wayne State University School of Mortuary Science morgue for up to three years without trying to notify parents, some of whom wanted to donate the bodies for medical research. The lawsuit further … [Read more...] about 2nd Detroit funeral home probed over handling of fetuses